Edamame

When we lived in CA we went had some fun dinners with Moco and Janesaw.  One time while we were making dinner Janesaw set out some edamame for us to snack on.  I’d never even seen it before let alone tried it.  Janesaw told me how to eat it and a few days later I picked some up at the store.  Then next time my mom came to visit us I pulled some out and got her hooked on it, too.

I’ve always bought it frozen because I’ve never seen it in the produce department but I’d occasionally wondered if I could hunt some fresh edamame down and see if there’s much of a difference.  Last week I went to a local farm stand and to my surprise they had fresh soybeans!  I was so excited I picked some right up.  They weren’t really any different from the kind I buy in the freezer section but it was still kind of fun to find it locally grown.

It’s such a yummy snack.  For those who have never tried it you can find it in any grocery store.  You can put the beans in salads and other things but I like them alone as a snack.  I heat the pods up in some boiling water, drain them, and sprinkle them with salt.  Eating them is kind of fun.  Hold one end of a pod and put the rest of it in your mouth.  Use your teeth to scoot the beans out of the pod and into your mouth.  They break out of the pod without much effort.  The salt stuck to the pod gets in your mouth as you pop out the soybean so it ends up perfectly seasoned.  Discard the pod when it’s empty.  Yum!  I usually eat a whole bowl by myself.